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Where to Find the Best Magic Tricks Part 1: Tips for Starting Magicians

Last time, we talked about the mindset any beginning magician would benefit from having. Now we’ll go into where you can look for good tricks that you can use to start building your own act. But Before Looking for Tricks, Keep This in Mind I’d start off by echoing what I’ve said in the previous…

How to Perform for Special Needs Children

From December 2016 to January of this year, Doug Scheer of Scheer Genius Assembly Shows, together with Kids Entertainer Hub, ran a contest for all Kids Entertainer Podcast listeners. For a chance to win Doug’s hit comedy routine Punctuation Pandemonium, we asked you to share a story of how you connected with a special needs…

Try This for a Cool & Different Birthday Entertainment: A Paper Plane Party

Want something fresh and out of the ordinary for birthday parties, particularly for boys? Here’s a brilliant idea from Alberto Lobo-Guerrero S., a professional magician from Colombia and a member of the Kids Entertainment Academy. Knowing that their child and their child’s friends love to make paper airplanes, Alberto and his wife decided to throw…

Copywriting Basics for Kids Entertainers: Headlines

Last time, I discussed effective guarantees that will help you win the trust and the business of your potential clients. In the final post of this series, we’ll tackle what could be called the most important part of your copy—your headline. The only way to ensure that your reader will read the first sentence of…

How to Approach a Restaurant to Get Work as a Magician: Restaurant Gigs for Kids Entertainers Part 1

Eyeing that restaurant in your area as your next client but not sure how to offer your magic services or apply for strolling work? In this new series on how to land restaurant gigs for children’s and family entertainers, we talk with Andrew Cox, a restaurant manager with over 20 years’ experience in the industry,…

Do you… Have a day job but you find yourself thinking about magic a lot? Watch magicians, observing every little detail of what they do, what they say, how they say it, what they wear, what tricks they do? Have a magic kit that you spend endless hours on, arranging and rearranging? Feel “I could…

Where to Get Free Images Online: Resource for Kids Entertainers

Every week that goes by is another seven days when kids entertainers get drawn into the digital world that no one can escape these days. Sometimes we need more than just photos of children laughing from the shows we perform. Here’s a resource that we think you will find invaluable over the coming years of…

Copywriting Basics for Kids Entertainers: Guarantees

In the previous article in this series, I talked about connecting words that you can use to make your copy flow seamlessly. Now we’ll tackle something extremely important in winning customers—guarantees. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we want minimal to zero risks when making any purchase. We…

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Looking for a great DIY magic trick? Here’s one by one of our favourite experienced children’s entertainers and educators, Jim Kleefeld. Jim is the author of multiple theme show magic books, and the following storytelling magic routine is taken from his book Dream Magic. We will hear more about and from Jim next week as…

Techniques to Help Control Kids During Friday Afternoon Parties

The Friday Afternoon Show Dilemma One of the common booking requests you will get is the Friday afternoon birthday party. Usually it involves the birthday child’s mum inviting the entire class to their home or a nearby park. These bookings can be the worst ones you will ever do as the kids have just spent…